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Pushing Daisies: What's with all the cleavage in the second ep? Its still cute and quirky, but maybe a little too cute and quirky for its own good. (The show, not cleavage!) Other than that, not much to say. Well, mebbe a little something more. What's with the weird song and dance number where Kristen Chenowith does Olivia Newton John's "Hopelessly Devoted to You"? I guess I do remember reading in a recap or a forum post somewhere where someone says they'll feel she's wasted if they don't give her at least one song to do this season. How odd that the show did it sooner rather than later.
Bionic Woman: Weird, its Andy from Kyle XY playing a bitchy rich-brat. Nice slutty school girl outfit! Anyways, the ep was Starbuck playing head games with Jamie, because Badger thinks he can cure whatever affliction Starbuck seems to have by studying Jamie's bionics. We also learn that Starbuck accidentally killed her sister when she was younger. Well, she was driving recklessly and got into an accident which killed her sister. But was it an accident? Strangely enough, they got T-boned by a semi, which is of course the exact same thing she did to Jamie and Will.
Anyhoo, through some clunky random exposition, little sis is talking about their relatives and mentions a possibly genetic neurological condition they could have. Gee, I wonder if that will make her immune to whatever Starbuck has. Starbuck tells Jamie that her doc boyfriend was studying her beforehand, and their whole relationship was a fabrication he was using to get close to her. Jamie doesn't believe her, but given what Isiah Washington's character did the second ep, its entirely possible! I mean, they didn't show it, but they made it sound like the butch blonde chick totally messed with Andy's head when Jamie left her at the base, so they seem to have psychological operations down pat.
Gossip Girl- Ah, this episode highlighted why I prefer Blair over Serena, and its not because I think Sweet Knees is hotter. (Even though she is) As an aside, at dinner,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clevemire asked me whenever I bring up "Sweet Knees", am I referring to Leighton Meester or Christine Lakin. Well, the easy answer, giving I'm usually using the term when talking about Gossip Girl, is I'm talking about the former. But the long TV-geeky answer is: On Veronica Mars, the name Sweet Knees came up during the PTA inquiry because they found an e-mail between Mr. Rook and an "SK". Since Leighton's character name was "Carrie Bishop", she lied and claimed it stood for "Sweet Knees", because he liked seeing her in knee socks. spcv('Nice!') Of course, SK actually stood for Susan Knight, played by Christine Lakin of Step by Step fame. So its not like she was a Sweet Knees. In any case though, I would refer to Christine as that "Step by Step" chick anyways. I know, you're thinking, weren't there 3 chicks on that show? Four if you count Suzanne Somers. But she of course will always be "Chrissy from Three's Company" or "Ab-roller chick" (or whatever ab exercising device she endorses) or if you really want to be obscure, "She's the Sheriff". Anyways, its like, the brunette daughter hasn't done anything since Step By Step, and the other daughter was played by Staci Keanan, who would be "My Two Dads chick". Amusingly enough, I get her name mixed up with Stacy Keach a lot, which is prolly an even more insane mix-up than Rip Taylor and Rip Torn (is that his given name? Because what are the chances?)
But I digress. No Jenny this week. Just a little bit of Rufus and Lily. Rufus gets all flirty with some buyer who buys one of his wife's paintings from the gallery for some "client". The client ends up being Lily of course, who recognizes that painting, and we get hints of some history between the three of them, and how his wife hates Lily's guts. So it really wouldn't be appropriate of her to take the painting.
Meanwhile, Chuck's throwing some annual weekend of debauchery. Some older dude who supposedly started these weekends, crashes the party. He's all hippie and "you need to give up your wealth to really live" or some such crap. Chuck doesn't like the guy, and at first you think its because he's a rich and privileged hedonist, and this guy is his exact opposite. Nate thinks he's so great, but Chuck rightfully points out this guys hypocrisy. If all that wealth is so bad, what's he doing crashing their party and mooching food and money?
Turns out Chuck was right to be mistrustful, as hippie-douche cons Nate into a game with some bad characters to fleece him of ten grand or so. Lucky for Nate, Chuck come in to save his boyfriend. I'm curious though, they said this hippie-douche was cut off, and they made it sound like it was because he gave up his riches to be all hippie. But if this guy shows up again, I wonder if we'll learn its all a lie and the guy was a gambling druggie and that's why his family cut him off. You can prolly ascertain that though.
Anyways, Chuck bails Nate out by paying his debts. Nate tries to pay Chuck back out of his trust, only to see its been cleared out hby his dad weeks ago. Ah, I suspected his family's fortunes were in trouble when dad was giving him the hard sell on hooking up with Blair to get in good with her mom and all his talk about "family loyalty" and wot-not in the previous eps. Heh, so he really is the Marissa of the show!
Serena and Blair are best buds again, and Dan's not too happy, because "Blair signifies everything he hates about the upper east side lifestyle". Judgemental much? Get off your high horse, jack-ass. Rufus rightfully scorns his son, saying people like that are always that way for a reason, so try to understand them first before you get with the hating.
Anyways, Blair's mom has a new line coming out, and her advisors think Blair might be the perfect model for the line. Serena overhears this and excitedly volunteers Blair in. Of course, she ends up coming off stiff on camera, so Serena has to come in and get her to loosen up. So then the camera man is all Serena would be the better choice. And Blair's bitch of a mom screws over her own daughter by picking Serena over her. I think Leighton did a good job of acting when Blair's mom tells her "they're going a different direction". That kinda sounding all accepting and putting on a brave face but you can tell her heart just got totally crushed? And just a few minutes earlier (well, and the night before), her face was lit and she was totally happy when she thought she was gonna get to model her mom's line. Your heart breaks for her.
Blair's already paranoid that her mom likes Serena more than her, so when she sees Serena at the shoot, she blows a gasket. Serena says she was tricked by Blair's mom, and yeah, kinda, but Blair rightfully brings up that wasn't she suspicious when Blair wasn't there when they were getting Serena ready? And she brings up how everyone prefers Serena over her, and the worst part is, its not like Serena's doing it on purpose. She can't help but outshine Blair, and that kinda sucks.
Dan overhears this of course. He gives Serena a lecturing, saying even if she was tricked, she invited him to the shoot so they could hang out on the sidelines, but it seemed like when they asked her to be in it, she jumped at the chance. So barring the Blair awkwardness, was he just supposed to stand there like a jack-ass the whole time? But they're still cool. He also gives Blair a pep talk, and she gets the courage to call her mom a bitch and Serena and her steal all the clothes and wander around NYC taking pictures of each other.
So in the end, Blair and Serena are still best friends (for now!) and Dan and Blair are fine with each other. I'm hoping they're more than fine though! The conversation in the hall when he comforts her was sweet. And hey, Serena did steal her boyfriend, so why not go for him? Besides, Nate is still totally in love with Serena, and while Dan has had a crush on her for the longest time, he seems easier to "crack" of his Serena worship. So bring on Dan/Blair! (I know, I'm such a faggo!)
Pushing Daisies: What's with all the cleavage in the second ep? Its still cute and quirky, but maybe a little too cute and quirky for its own good. (The show, not cleavage!) Other than that, not much to say. Well, mebbe a little something more. What's with the weird song and dance number where Kristen Chenowith does Olivia Newton John's "Hopelessly Devoted to You"? I guess I do remember reading in a recap or a forum post somewhere where someone says they'll feel she's wasted if they don't give her at least one song to do this season. How odd that the show did it sooner rather than later.
Bionic Woman: Weird, its Andy from Kyle XY playing a bitchy rich-brat. Nice slutty school girl outfit! Anyways, the ep was Starbuck playing head games with Jamie, because Badger thinks he can cure whatever affliction Starbuck seems to have by studying Jamie's bionics. We also learn that Starbuck accidentally killed her sister when she was younger. Well, she was driving recklessly and got into an accident which killed her sister. But was it an accident? Strangely enough, they got T-boned by a semi, which is of course the exact same thing she did to Jamie and Will.
Anyhoo, through some clunky random exposition, little sis is talking about their relatives and mentions a possibly genetic neurological condition they could have. Gee, I wonder if that will make her immune to whatever Starbuck has. Starbuck tells Jamie that her doc boyfriend was studying her beforehand, and their whole relationship was a fabrication he was using to get close to her. Jamie doesn't believe her, but given what Isiah Washington's character did the second ep, its entirely possible! I mean, they didn't show it, but they made it sound like the butch blonde chick totally messed with Andy's head when Jamie left her at the base, so they seem to have psychological operations down pat.
Gossip Girl- Ah, this episode highlighted why I prefer Blair over Serena, and its not because I think Sweet Knees is hotter. (Even though she is) As an aside, at dinner,
clevemire asked me whenever I bring up "Sweet Knees", am I referring to Leighton Meester or Christine Lakin. Well, the easy answer, giving I'm usually using the term when talking about Gossip Girl, is I'm talking about the former. But the long TV-geeky answer is: On Veronica Mars, the name Sweet Knees came up during the PTA inquiry because they found an e-mail between Mr. Rook and an "SK". Since Leighton's character name was "Carrie Bishop", she lied and claimed it stood for "Sweet Knees", because he liked seeing her in knee socks. spcv('Nice!') Of course, SK actually stood for Susan Knight, played by Christine Lakin of Step by Step fame. So its not like she was a Sweet Knees. In any case though, I would refer to Christine as that "Step by Step" chick anyways. I know, you're thinking, weren't there 3 chicks on that show? Four if you count Suzanne Somers. But she of course will always be "Chrissy from Three's Company" or "Ab-roller chick" (or whatever ab exercising device she endorses) or if you really want to be obscure, "She's the Sheriff". Anyways, its like, the brunette daughter hasn't done anything since Step By Step, and the other daughter was played by Staci Keanan, who would be "My Two Dads chick". Amusingly enough, I get her name mixed up with Stacy Keach a lot, which is prolly an even more insane mix-up than Rip Taylor and Rip Torn (is that his given name? Because what are the chances?)But I digress. No Jenny this week. Just a little bit of Rufus and Lily. Rufus gets all flirty with some buyer who buys one of his wife's paintings from the gallery for some "client". The client ends up being Lily of course, who recognizes that painting, and we get hints of some history between the three of them, and how his wife hates Lily's guts. So it really wouldn't be appropriate of her to take the painting.
Meanwhile, Chuck's throwing some annual weekend of debauchery. Some older dude who supposedly started these weekends, crashes the party. He's all hippie and "you need to give up your wealth to really live" or some such crap. Chuck doesn't like the guy, and at first you think its because he's a rich and privileged hedonist, and this guy is his exact opposite. Nate thinks he's so great, but Chuck rightfully points out this guys hypocrisy. If all that wealth is so bad, what's he doing crashing their party and mooching food and money?
Turns out Chuck was right to be mistrustful, as hippie-douche cons Nate into a game with some bad characters to fleece him of ten grand or so. Lucky for Nate, Chuck come in to save his boyfriend. I'm curious though, they said this hippie-douche was cut off, and they made it sound like it was because he gave up his riches to be all hippie. But if this guy shows up again, I wonder if we'll learn its all a lie and the guy was a gambling druggie and that's why his family cut him off. You can prolly ascertain that though.
Anyways, Chuck bails Nate out by paying his debts. Nate tries to pay Chuck back out of his trust, only to see its been cleared out hby his dad weeks ago. Ah, I suspected his family's fortunes were in trouble when dad was giving him the hard sell on hooking up with Blair to get in good with her mom and all his talk about "family loyalty" and wot-not in the previous eps. Heh, so he really is the Marissa of the show!
Serena and Blair are best buds again, and Dan's not too happy, because "Blair signifies everything he hates about the upper east side lifestyle". Judgemental much? Get off your high horse, jack-ass. Rufus rightfully scorns his son, saying people like that are always that way for a reason, so try to understand them first before you get with the hating.
Anyways, Blair's mom has a new line coming out, and her advisors think Blair might be the perfect model for the line. Serena overhears this and excitedly volunteers Blair in. Of course, she ends up coming off stiff on camera, so Serena has to come in and get her to loosen up. So then the camera man is all Serena would be the better choice. And Blair's bitch of a mom screws over her own daughter by picking Serena over her. I think Leighton did a good job of acting when Blair's mom tells her "they're going a different direction". That kinda sounding all accepting and putting on a brave face but you can tell her heart just got totally crushed? And just a few minutes earlier (well, and the night before), her face was lit and she was totally happy when she thought she was gonna get to model her mom's line. Your heart breaks for her.
Blair's already paranoid that her mom likes Serena more than her, so when she sees Serena at the shoot, she blows a gasket. Serena says she was tricked by Blair's mom, and yeah, kinda, but Blair rightfully brings up that wasn't she suspicious when Blair wasn't there when they were getting Serena ready? And she brings up how everyone prefers Serena over her, and the worst part is, its not like Serena's doing it on purpose. She can't help but outshine Blair, and that kinda sucks.
Dan overhears this of course. He gives Serena a lecturing, saying even if she was tricked, she invited him to the shoot so they could hang out on the sidelines, but it seemed like when they asked her to be in it, she jumped at the chance. So barring the Blair awkwardness, was he just supposed to stand there like a jack-ass the whole time? But they're still cool. He also gives Blair a pep talk, and she gets the courage to call her mom a bitch and Serena and her steal all the clothes and wander around NYC taking pictures of each other.
So in the end, Blair and Serena are still best friends (for now!) and Dan and Blair are fine with each other. I'm hoping they're more than fine though! The conversation in the hall when he comforts her was sweet. And hey, Serena did steal her boyfriend, so why not go for him? Besides, Nate is still totally in love with Serena, and while Dan has had a crush on her for the longest time, he seems easier to "crack" of his Serena worship. So bring on Dan/Blair! (I know, I'm such a faggo!)